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A supporter of Harthacnut, but with this wet Alfred and his men were met by Earl Godwin, work Godwin successfully ingratiated himself the most powerful Englishman in the land. The with Harold Harefoot. In Harthacnut’s continuing Godwin family had risen to prominence from absence, Harold Harefoot was crowned king – and obscure origins under Cnut. Godwin welcomed Emma was sent into exile. Not to Normandy Alfred and his men and took them to Guildford, Cnut from a 14th-century manuscript. The story of the tide was meant to indicate the king’s humility, not his arrogance – where Edward might have given her a frosty reception – but to Flanders.

Edgar, son of Edward the Exile, the boy with the best claim to the crown of England. Unfortunately, though, he was a boy Defining moment Defining moment 1036 Did Edward really promise William the crown? 1051 Harthacnut, against all precedent, invites Edward to return from exile and rule alongside him in England as co-regent. He does this either to shore up his own unpopular rule or because he knows he is ill and, being without any children, he is putting a successor in place should he succumb to his illness.